Game apparatus.



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GAME APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 9. 1915.

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GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 26, 1915.

Application filed March 9, 1915. Serial No. 13,143.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD W. MoCAR- ROLL,residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, a citizen of the United States, have invented ordiscovered a certain new and useful Improvement in Game Apparatus, ofwhich improvement the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a toy shooting apparatus for agame of battle, whereby two or more persons may arrange themselves asopponents, and each, by suitable devices, shoot at a fort or target infront of the other, such target being provided with means to retain hitshots, which, after a given period of firing, may be counted todetermine the winner of the battle.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, which forms part of myspecification, I have illustrated the preferred embodiment of myinvention.

F'gure 1 is a combined side elevation and central sectional view of theapparatus; Fig. 2 an end elevation; Figs. 3 and 4. sectional views takenon the lines III-III and VI-- VI, respectively, Fig. l; and Fig. 5 a topplan view of the box in collapsed or packing position. i

In the several figures like numerals are used to designate like parts.

The apparatus, in its preferred form, comprises a box havingopposite-disposed side and end walls, and a removable cover, each endwall being provided with a plurality of holes of one size and with a-plurality of holes of a different size. A suitable passagewaycommunicates with each of the holes of one size in one of the endportions, and is adapted to receive and retain such shots as passthrough the holes.

In the embodiment of my invention illustrated in the drawings, the box,which is elongate in form, has plane faced side walls 1 and 2, made ofany suitable rigid material such as wood, metal or composition board.The oppositely disposed end walls are alike in construction, and eachconsists of an upper portion 8 of transparent material and a lowertwo-walled portion 4, 5. While any suitable number of target holes maybe provided and may be arranged as desired, as shown herein there aretwo large size holes 6 through the lower part of each wall member 4, twoholes 7 of smaller size immediately above the holes 6, and a centralhole placed upon the period of shooting.

8 of still smaller size. The space between the wall members 4 and 5 isprovided with partitions, which, with said members, afford passagewaysextending downwardly from the target holes. As will be seen in Fig. 3,the passageway 9 communicates with the likesize holes 6, the passageway10 with the holes 7, and a receptacle 11 is formed at the rear of thehole 8. Suitable stopper-provided openings 12, 13 and 14 are formed inthe wall member 5 at the lowermost part of passageways 9, l0 and 11,respectively, and. through which openings the shots passing through thetarget holes may be removed.

As the game is intended to be played with the box resting upon a table,no bottom portion is provided. However, I preferably provide a removabletop or cover consisting of a wire screen 15 having secured thereto aninset rim 16 adapted to receive the upper edges of the box parts and toreinforce such parts. The vertical edges of the sides and ends arehinged together, as shown in Fig. 5, so that the box may, when the cover15, 16 is removed, be collapsed as there indicated.

While any desired shooting devices may be employed, it is preferred touse bean blowers. Accordingly such a blower 17 projects through each endof the box, preferably at the lower edges of the transparent portions 3,and each blower is provided with a collar 18 to limit the extent towhich the blower may be inserted through the box walls. At the rear ofthe holes 6, 7 and 8 the wall members 5 may, to prevent shots fromrebounding through such holes, be provided with pads 19 of felt or likematerial; and, to protect the rims of the target holes, suitable washers20 may be secured to the end portions 4, as shown. Furthermore, to addinterest and reality to the game, the exterior of a fort is pictured onthe inside face of each end of this box, as is shown in Fig. 4, thetarget holes 6, 7 and 8 representing the mouths of difierent sizedcannons.

In playing a game of battle with my improved apparatus, values such as5, 10 and 15 may be assigned, respectively, to the holes 6, 7 and 8. Theplayers may either each be given an equal number of beans and shootuntil all have been shot, or the number of shots may be unlimited and atime liniit n tie either event the object of the game is, of'

course, to get the greatest valuation of the shots goingthroughtheholesz' The players, looking through the transparent endportions 3, get a clear View of the target or fort in front of theiropponent; and the players are, by the cover 15, protected against beinghit by wild shots. The shots entering the target holes are retained inthe several passageways 9, 10 and I1, and will roll downwardly towardthe openings 12, 13- and 14:. At the conclusion of the game the stoppersare removed from the passageways communicating with the holes ofonefsize throughone end, and an outlet 1 for'ea'ch passageway.

2. A, shooting apparatus, comprising a box having oppositely disposedside and-end walls, hinged at their vertical edges, a" removable screencover having an. inset rim adapted to receive the upper edges of theboxwalls and to reinforce such walls, each end portion being providedwith a plurality of holes of different sizes, and receptacles at therear of the ends adapted to receive ol jectsprojected through the holestherein.

8. A shooting apparatus, comprising a box having oppositely disposedside and end walls and a cover, the upper part of each end portion beingmade of transparent material and the lower part being provided with aplurality of holes of diiferent sizes, a shooting device projectingthrough each end portion, and receptacles at the rear of the endsadapted to receive objects projected through the holes therein.

4. A shooting apparatus, comprising a boxhaving oppositely disposed sideand end walls hinged at their vertical edges, a removable screen coverhaving an inset rim adapted to receive the upper edges of the box wallsand to thereby reinforce such walls, the upper part of each end portionbeing made of transparent material and the lower part. being provided'with a plurality of holes otfi one size and with a plurality of holes:of another size, a plurality of downwardly-extending passageways securedto the outside of each end: portion, each of said passagewayscommunicating with the holes or one size through one end, and an outletfor eachpassageway.

In testimony whereof I have hereuntoset my hand.

I ED-WVA-RD W. MOCARROLL. \Vitne'sses-r PAUL N. CRL'roiiLovv, FRANCIS J.ToirAssoN.

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